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Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:04:32 -0500Here's the answer to the question you never cared enough to think about: How did John Candy's ears and tail move around when he played Barf in Spaceballs? Courtesy of The Character Shop, we can show you:

Special effects artist Rick Lazzarini ("Aliens") created two versions of Barf's ears. Both pairs would be individually movable and would have five axis of movement: rotate, tilt side to side, tilt forward/back, and two other axis of curling/pointing straight. They would have similar expressiveness and movement as a human hand (with fingers together), and would allow the ears to wave, curl, and spring to attention.

It's surprisingly easy to make pretty much any movie look like a hyper-meaningful, super-dramatic Christopher Nolan movie - lots of fades to black, some ominously striking music, and important lines said over a black screen. Even Mel Brooks' silly Spaceballs works!

But the cast would likely be slightly different in Nolan's Spaceballs: